Genesis 26:9 · JPS 1917

And Abimelech called Isaac, and said: 'Behold, of a surety she is thy wife; and how saidst thou: She is my sister?' And Isaac said unto him: 'Because I said: Lest I die because of her.'

Who acts: Abimelech, thou, Isaac, I · What happens: call, say, be, die · To what, where: Isaac, wife, sister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Genesis 26:9 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abimelech, thou, Isaac, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 called	cc
2	Abimelech	Abimelech	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 Behold	punct
10	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	18 wife	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 surety	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 surety	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 surety	det
14	surety	surety	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wife	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wife	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wife	cop
17	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 saidst	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saidst	cc
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 saidst	advmod
22	saidst	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
23	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 saidst	nsubj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 sister	punct
25	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sister	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 sister	cop
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sister	nmod:poss
28	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saidst	ccomp
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 sister	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 sister	punct
31	And	and	CCONJ	_	33 said	cc
32	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 said	nsubj
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
34	unto	unto	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 said	obl
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	40 said	punct
38	Because	because	SCONJ	_	40 said	mark
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 said	nsubj
40	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	advcl
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 die	punct
42	Lest	lest	SCONJ	_	44 die	mark
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 die	nsubj
44	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 said	ccomp
45	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	47 her	case
46	of	of	ADP	_	45 because	fixed
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 die	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
49	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: disagree
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=disagree, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	Abimelech		Isaac		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent isaac=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Abimelech not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	Abimelech	thy wife		of a surety	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	thou				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	Abimelech	my sister			tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	Isaac			unto Rebekah	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	past	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	die	present	I			because wife	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The Hebrew of this verse

וַיִּקְרָ֨א אֲבִימֶ֜לֶךְ לְיִצְחָ֗ק וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אַ֣ךְ הִנֵּ֤ה אִשְׁתְּךָ֙ הִ֔וא וְאֵ֥יךְ אָמַ֖רְתָּ אֲחֹ֣תִי הִ֑וא וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ יִצְחָ֔ק כִּ֣י אָמַ֔רְתִּי פֶּן־אָמ֖וּת עָלֶֽיהָ׃

Genesis 26:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:GEN:742 of Mova's parse database.

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